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Death of Philip Seymour Hoffman

Mon 3 Feb 2014

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman poses with his award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama for Capote at the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California in January 2006. Hoffman, one of the leading actors of his generation, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on February 2nd 2014 in what a New York police source described as an apparent drug overdose. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

The Oscar-winning actor during a photo call for the World Premiere of the film Mission Impossible III in Rome in this April 24, 2006. Photograph: Giampiero Sposito/Reuters

Hoffman poses during the photocall of the movie The Master at the 69th Venice Film Festival in Venice in September 2012 Photograph: Max Rossi/Reuters

Hoffman at a news conference to present his film Capote at the 56th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin in February 2006. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters